hostile to the Fatherland ; the opposite is the more correct view. If Trades Union action aims at improving the condition of a class which is one of the pillars of the nation, and succeeds in doing so, its action is not against the Fatherland or the State, but is “national” in the truest sense of the word. In that way it helps to forge social principles, without which general national education is unthinkable. It earns the highest merit, for, by eradicating social cankers, it attacks the causes of disease, both mental and bodily, and so adds to the general welfare of the nation.
As far as essentials are concerned, the question is really a superfluous one.
So long as there are amongst employers men with little social understanding or wrong ideas of justice and fairness, it is not only the right, but the duty of their employees, who, after all, form a part of our population, to protect the interests of the whole against the greed or unreasonableness of the individual ; for to keep loyalty and faith alive